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Last year the Buenos Aires based architectural practice BAK arquitectos finished this massive single family villa on a sloped lot in the forest around the Argentinean capital.

“The particularity of this engagement was that, although the requirement was about two bedrooms and their respective bathrooms, the social area must be large enough with the possibility of being adapted to different uses as they frequently receive many friends.
The program was resolved by crossing two prisms perpendicularly and placing it in a forest clearing between the trees. The strong slope of the land was exploited to hide part of the program, reducing in this way the presence of the built volume.”

photo’s by Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

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I found this one at the website of the DMY international design festival Berlin. I especially like the top view of this hen house.

Frederik Roijé was born in the eastern part of the Netherlands. After graduating at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, he started his own design studio based in Amsterdam: a studio specialized in interior and product design, where concept and renewal are main points.
During the DMY in Berlin, Frederik Roijé presents his latest project Breed Retreat. An architectural hen house to breed and retreat. ‘To eliminate the estrangement from our origin, respecting nature will be necessary. Designing a special place will give nature its space, even in urban society.’

For those who didn’t know yet, the results of the competition ‘designing absence‘ are being shown in various exhibitions in and around Antwerp. The first one is running towards it’s end. Today is the last day to view the towers at the ‘designcenter winkelhaak‘ in Antwerp. we’ll update you about the other expo’s as soon as possible.

CRANELOFT is an alternative habitation into an existing port crane. It is a project that uses reuse as a tool of creting achitecture. Reuse has two layers. The first layer is the one of the design itself and the reuse of the port crane to “carry” the house. The second layer is the one of the infrastructures and giving new use into dead -because of deindustrialization- urban areas.CRANELOFT is an “low-cost, autonomous, self-sufficient possible proposal of an alternative habitation with global character”.

Yorgos Rimenidis and Michalis Softas are master students in the department of architecture, university of Thessaly, Greece. Visit the complete project here:

http://issuu.com/yorgosrimenidis/docs/craneloft

It’s been a while, but here we go again; The Spanish architectural practice Subarquitectura recently finished this sculptural sloped single family residence in Galapagar near Madrid. The plan demonstrates the well utilised spaces and the moments of intimacy and community this extraordinary composition offers.

Via Dailytonic

These days it seems to be a trend to use triangles and geometry to create strange perspectives. I must say that I like it! Here’s a house designed by McBride Charles Ryan architects. This building was built for the Honorary Consul of Monaco and is the first to be granted naming rights outside Monaco. On a site of just 101 square metres, the building is four storeys high and includes a cafe, consular activity, offices, meeting areas and a rooftop garden.

As a master-project I am organizing a competition round the Cathedral of Antwerp. In this concept architecture and sculpture gets merged together. The assignment embodies the disarming question: Design a second tower for the Cathedral of Antwerp. The given fact of a missing element in an existing structure and city-layout inspires to an autonomic completion for everybody. By organizing a competition or international brainstorm I would like to put the emphasis on the absence and by doing so emphasize the Cathedral itself. The contestants receive a picture of the Cathedral where they realize their design in a sort of overlay. I don’t want to exclude anybody, it will be a truly open competition. The results can be a 3D render, a ruff concept or a simple black marker drawing. The design can vary from inflatable structures to melted towers. I am communicating to all major European universities in the departements of Architecture, Graphic design and Visual Arts and true a large international cultural work-field. A selection of submissions will be exposed in a traveling exhibition and they will all be published (in the extend of the realizable). This publication wil showcase a big diversity of filled in absence and will function again as source of inspiration.

So start designing and submit your work! Right here at, Designing Absence.

Mathieu Lehanneur is a fantastic designer, inventor,.. and lots more. His work varies from interior designs to pils and robots. His designs are functional and flawless a great merge between aesthetics and concept. In this post I’ve tried to compile his most famous designs. On the first look they probably don’t say anything, on his website u can find the explanations. But maybe u can find it out by just looking at the visual images themselves.

For 10 years Belgium and Holland are planning a Wind Turbine park in front of their coastline. Green power is the future. And in Belgium, when the government talks about the future, they are not talking about “next year”, or within the next 5 to 10 years… It looks like when they use the world future, they talk about the year 3000+.  The plans are made, the first 10 Turbines stand in front of the coastline as a test park, the other Turbine’s will be build in the future. When our Wind Turbine Park is finally finished, this project will probably be old news. “On Office” is working on a revolutionary project: Turbine City. I think they figured that when people live on oil platforms, why not in Wind Turbines? The full story and project idea’s can be found in there website. We offer you some more pictures after the read more button.